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Qwest only telephone company to defy fed { May 12 2006 } Original Source Link: (May no longer be active)    http://today.reuters.com/investing/financeArticle.aspx?type=governmentFilingsNews&storyID=2006-05-12T183404Z_01_N12448594_RTRIDST_0_SECURITY-QWEST.XML http://today.reuters.com/investing/financeArticle.aspx?type=governmentFilingsNews&storyID=2006-05-12T183404Z_01_N12448594_RTRIDST_0_SECURITY-QWEST.XML Qwest ex-CEO denied US request for phone records Fri May 12, 2006 2:34 PM ET By Sinead Carew NEW YORK, May 12 (Reuters) - Joseph Nacchio, the former chief executive of local telephone operator Qwest Communications International Inc. , refused a government request to provide the government with access to customer records, his lawyer said on Friday. The statement follows a USA Today report on Thursday that the National Security Agency (NSA) was secretly amassing telephone records of tens of millions of people from the largest U.S. phone service providers. According to the story, Qwest was the only one of the country's four regional telephone companies to refuse to give the domestic spying agency access to its customer records. President George W. Bush on Thursday denied his administration's espionage program infringed on Americans' privacy and said the government was not eavesdropping on domestic calls without court approval. Nacchio, who pleaded not guilty in December to insider trading charges, was asked in the fall of 2001 and until his departure from Qwest in June 2002 to let the government see customer phone records, according to his lawyer Herbert Stern. Nacchio asked if there was a warrant or another legal process to support the request, Stern said in a statement. "When he learned that no such authority had been granted and that there was a disinclination on the part of the authorities to use any legal process ... Mr. Nacchio concluded these requests violated the privacy requirements of the Telecommunications Act," Stern said. At the time, Nacchio was also serving as Chairman of the National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee, a panel created by President Reagan in 1982 to advise on issues of national security and emergency preparedness. According to USA Today, NSA used records provided by the country's biggest phone companies AT&T Inc , Verizon Communications and BellSouth Corp to analyze calling patterns in an effort to detect terrorist plots.

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